Prototype 1 debut at the Van Abbe Museum, The Netherlands, 2009. integrates wireless brainscanning using the Neurosky MindSet and real-time brain visualization projection.

Greetings from the Klokgebouw!

Posted by Luther Thie on November 21, 2010

We’re here at STRP Art + Technology Festival in lovely Einhoven, NL. STRP 2010 is the first time for Acclair to take its AVS (art valuation system) live with multiple users. For this iteration (Beta 2) we have capabilities for up to 10 guests to participate simultaneously, viewing projects throughout multiple festival halls. Our AVS “flânueur” explore the festival buildings and participate in diverse activities—playing video games (if anyone can be said to “play” Fur Art’s Painstation) watching 3D film in-the-round or running through a facial recognition matrix to see which famous (or infamous) person most closely matches their scan (team Acclair turns up as Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and Amy Winehouse—jet lag, go figure), then report back to receive their “curiosity score”.

The scene from the Acclair registration desk

This is also our first time out with the Acclair AVS iphone app (thanks Mathias Dahlström!), swell systems, server and database programming (thanks Barak Har’el!), custom data visualization (thanks Michael Doherty!), great print design (thanks Lee Schain) and super awesome artwork (thanks Kathrine Worel!).

Thank you to our fantastic volunteer attendants and the great exhibition viewers/users

We’re learning a lot about running such a complex system live, it’s a real trial-by-fire. But there’s nothing like learning on the fly! This expansion also represents a successful next step in pushing neuro-aware environments into the “everyday” and current database totals show almost 200 people have used the Art Valuation Service so far!